Woman who beat sex offender with bat pleads guilty

The Pierce County woman who used an aluminum baseball bat to attack a 7-foot-3 sex offender living in her trailer park has pleaded guilty to third-degree assault, according to The Associated Press.

Gibson and Baldwin (Pierce County Sheriff’s Office photo)

After the June attack, she told television crews the man had been trying to talk to her young daughter and that she’d beat him again.

The man, William Baldwin, pleaded guilty on charges he failed to register as a sex offender.

Both lived in part of unincorporated Puyallup.

After Gibson was jailed, she became an Internet celebrity and people started a “Free Tammy” movement, attempting to raise her $15,000 bail.

Baldwin, who was 24 during the beating, is a Level 3 sex offender and considered a high risk to reoffend.

“This isn’t a soccer mom in a minivan,” Pierce County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Detective Ed Troyer said at the time of the 5-foot-11 Gibson. “She has no less than a dozen arrests over the last few years, for assault, drugs, driving crimes – you name it.

“This is someone well versed in the criminal justice system, ” Troyer said.

Our news partners at KOMO/4 spoke to both Baldwin and Gibson, who said she’d kill him if she had the chance. Here’s the video from June 2008.